Has The NME Got Good?

Artist are known to be much, much, much more openminded towards other genres than their fans are though.

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i wd have gone drums n wires but ehh

Geir with all respect even the god-knows-whats that read Mojo have a bit broader range of interests than "all shit that sounds like the Kinks, all the time".

the c...the cu...the oh forget it, in 2k11 that term will have to be rationed

sort of admirable that the nme are giving this list to 15yr old proto-ilx types for whom it will only hasten the end of their nme buying days

The proto-ILX types have never started buying NME in the first place. They are content with hit magazines and hitlists.

how did you get into proper music?

if that story doesn't involve some kind of traumatic brain injury then I don't wanna hear it

Having never read the NME - why would they have a "non-music" issue as mentioned in the OP? They're a music magazine, right? What kind of content would a "non-music" NME have?

They are content with hit magazines and hitlists.

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dunno what issue the OP was refering to but in the 80s the NME wd run occasional non-music cover stories about Youth Issues like drugs or suicide or voting for Neil Kinnock. any sense of this being a bold move was mitigated by yr suspicion that they couldn't face putting the Smiths on the cover because J. Marr hadn't farted in public that week.

aye, it'd have music shit in there too

at one point there was a big internal war over "that sort of thing" (cf. covering hip-hop) but the main player's name escapes me. stuart something, perhaps, who was styled "media editor" maybe.

Stuart Cosgrove. Ian Pye was the editor at the time IIRC

xxp I always thought those non-musical cover stories were a serious engagement with key issues. they didn't strike me as being tokenistic or whatever. nevertheless I remember reading somewhere (may even have been ILM) that the youth suicide issue was the lowest selling ever.

In reply, fuck that shit. When I was 17 me and my friends all read the NME and didn't have the awesome broadband every 17 year old has now. We all knew and loved TROY and Shook Ones Pt. 2. I remember getting drunk with a couple other friends jamming to Black Moon (about as close to Smif N Wesson as a group can get). Kids know how to download things, they aren't fucking ignorant of these super obscure records. No-one would have a problem with him putting in Da Dirty 30 or Bl_ck B_st_rds

The indie equiv of The Infamous is what, a Weezer record or Dookie or something? NME wouldn't dare stick something like that in this list but instead they and Mark Ronson are fucking stupid and ignorant.

When I was 17 me and my friends all read the NME and didn't have the awesome broadband every 17 year old has now. We all knew and loved TROY and Shook Ones Pt. 2. I remember getting drunk with a couple other friends jamming to Black Moon (about as close to Smif N Wesson as a group can get).

well you're an exceptional individual, clearly. i was a 17-y-o nme reader, Before The Internet, and knew plenty. and in my world of young nme readers, very, very few were familiar with hip-hop beyond stuff that got in the charts.

The indie equiv of The Infamous is what, a Weezer record or Dookie or something? NME wouldn't dare stick something like that in this list but instead they and Mark Ronson are fucking stupid and ignorant.

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 3, 2011 2:32 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark

that's because the nme is an indie mag not a rap mag derp

nah smif n wesson is a good pick for this sort of thing. black moon wld be too. the infamous and pete rock debut are too close to canon picks even for a teen rock mag tho

though as it goes mid-late 90s nme wasn't that big on weezer. from what i can tell neither the debut nor 'pinkerton' made its EOY so, yeah, brilliant example.

Kids know how to download things, they aren't fucking ignorant of these super obscure records. No-one would have a problem with him putting in Da Dirty 30 or Bl_ck B_st_rds

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:30 (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you realise this post makes you look insane, right?

like if you can look over that entire list and the one thing you conclude is "Smif N Wessun are way to well known to be in this"... I don't know how to finish that sentence tbh

fwiw the Mobb Deep was one of I think three things in there I thought were maybe a bit 'canon' even for this readership, the other two being Love and The Zombies, but (a) I don't actually own any of those myself and (b) the fuck does it matter *really*

In reply, fuck that shit. When I was 17 me and my friends all read the NME and didn't have the awesome broadband every 17 year old has now. We all knew and loved TROY and Shook Ones Pt. 2. I remember getting drunk with a couple other friends jamming to Black Moon (about as close to Smif N Wesson as a group can get). Kids know how to download things, they aren't fucking ignorant of these super obscure records. No-one would have a problem with him putting in Da Dirty 30 or Bl_ck B_st_rds

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:30 (59 minutes ago)

every1 had dsl when i was 17 and i'm older than u iirc

and every1 has access to internet music journalism but some still buy nme, not just about 'access' to records/content, ppl like familiarity/recommendations

Maybe the problem is some people just cannot cope with the fact that many are actually still into white guys with guitars because they happen to like that kind of music best?

The perspective on US Hip Hop from the UK has always been weird and getting weirder I think. Most of the kids I know - who are admittedly not in the NME's demographic really - don't know about any of the 90s acts that were a huge fucking deal at the time. Broadband is one thing but having a map of the musical universe is another - most of the teenagers I talk to that give a shit about Hip Hop don't have much interest in history.

u still haven't told us how u got into music geir

Geir please give it a rest with white guys with guitars.

Maybe the problem is some people just cannot cope with the fact that many are actually still into white guys with guitars because they happen to like that kind of music best?

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:38 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol is this even a response to anyone's actual post

most of the teenagers I talk to that give a shit about Hip Hop don't have much interest in history.

― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:40 (13 seconds ago)

don't necessarily think this is a problem, i mean i'm not sure if the east riding ukhh scene is going to be the atlanta of the 2k10s, but a little less record-collector piety might be worth a try

like i'd guess those odd future etc reets are only selectively schooled in the lore -- a partial, misinformed history is maybe better than encyclopedism or ~eclecticism~

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oh nakh yeah I wasn't saying this was in any way a problem, just that I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised at kids not having heard of The Infamous. Plus reiterating the stuff about it being a list for NME readers i.e. who gives a fuck about them anyway?

if anything the scene kids are a bawhair away from being corny undie mfers anyway, the mainstream guys just seem to randomly dig whatever's vaguely crossed over plus odd stuff from god knows where. any yes Hull is high on the list of Least Urban cities in the Yoo Kay too.

yeah i wouldn't be surprised xp....i mean some of these names don't mean a lot to me

a hoy hoy is clearly through the looking glass itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOkeYyrwB6g

lol I think we've got an EP of theirs lying somewhere round the house

these are like standard "100 best hip hop records ever" records btw, so let's not act like ahoy is totally crazy. nme kids prob haven't heard any queensbridge hip hop but u still don't put illmatic in the issue u present as secret sounds.

they didn't put illmatic in iirc

also (i've said this elsewhere) the list has 'the marble index' and xtc and the go-betweens and felt so it isn't *that* obscure

the argument "nme kids haven't hear this" mayne

nah that's quibbling. "secret sounds" to their readership is a different thing. moaning about the NME's choice of music coverage is like getting radge cos X Factor doesn't have enough chillwave acts on it.

and yeah it's uk-centric and honestly in the mid-90s queensbridge rap, it wasn't a thing a whole lot of nme readers or writers read or wrote about

the problem itt appears to be that it's an nme list full of music ilx people actually like

nas has had chart hits in the uk, mobb deep didn't. that's just how it was.

also they'd purged all the journos that gave a shit about Hip Hop by '91

these are like standard "100 best hip hop records ever" records btw

apart from all the 00s lost-in-the-landfill indie on there a majority of the list is pretty standard "100 best [genre] records ever" records - doesn't mean most of the world knows or cares about them

Is this list linked anywhere so that I don't have to buy the NME to know what you're talking about?

01.Clor <Clor>2005
02.Performance <(we are) Performance>2007
03.Jenny Wilson <love and youth >2005
04.Leadbelly <last session>1948
05.the shaggs <philosophy of the world > 1969
06.the wipers < is this real > 1980
07.young marble giants <colossal youth>1980
08.shonen knife <burning farm > 1983
09.jad fair <great expectations >1989
10.Felt <forever breathes the lonely word >1986
11.john phillips<john , the wolfking of LA >1970
12.bad brains <roir >1982
13.atlas strategic <that's familiar >2002
14.jonathan richman and the modern lovers <modern lovers 88> 1988
15.the electric prunes <underground >1967
16.the television personalities <they could have been bigger than the beatles >1982
17.the red crayola <the parable of arable land > 1967
18.love <da capo>1967
19.euphoria <a gift from euphoria > 1969
20.the field mice < skywriting >1990
21.satisfact <the unwanted sounds of satisfact >1996
22.eliane radigue <adnos 1-3>1975-1983
23.the zombies <odessey and oracle >1968
24.the associates <sulk >1982
25.magazine <real life > 1978
26.pop levi <the return to form black majick party > 2007
27.jay farrar / benjamin gibbard <one fast move or im gone :kerouac's big sur >2009
28.floraline <floraline > 1999
29.arthur russell <calling out of context > 2004
30.mccarthy <i am a wallet >1987
31.cluster < zuckerzeit >1974
32.the prisoners < thewisermiserdemelza>1983
33.the cardigans <long gone before daylight >2003
34.60ft dolls <the big 3>1996
35.thomas dolby <the flat earth >1984
36.jeffrey lee pierce <wildweed >1985
37.simple minds <reel to real cacophony >1979
38.ABC<beauty stab >1983
39.the bodines <played >1987
40.john cale <fear >1974
41.cocteau twins < heaven or las vegas>1990
42.crass <the feeding of the 5000>1978
43.eater <the album >1977
44.the dancing did <and did those feet >1982
45.organisation < tone float >1970
46.LFO <frequencies>1991
47.boards of canada < twoism>1995
48.motorbass <pansoul >1996
49.position normal <goodly time >2000
50.freestyle fellowship < innercity griots >1993
51. all night radio < spirit stereo frequency >2004
52.chick corea <my spanish heart >1976
53.nico < the marble index>1969
54.queen <queen >debut album
55.the kossoy sisters <bowling green >1956
56.the germs < GI >1979
57.orphan boy < shop local >2008
58.the pretty things < sf sorrow >1968
59.cardinal < cardinal >1994
60.the red devils < king king >1992
61.michael hurley< have moicy > 1976
62.jens lekman < night falls over kortedala >2007
63.curtis mayfield < curtis live !>1971
64.lizzy mercier descloux< mambo nassau >2003
65.XTC <white music >1978
66.serge gainsbourg < you're under arrest >1987
67.the for carnation <the for carnation >2000
68.jarcrew <jarcrew >2003
69.studio < west coast >2007
70.huggy bear < our troubled youth >1992
71.this heat <deceit >1981
72.superstar <palm tree>1997
73.skinnyman <council estate of mind >2004
74.jeffrey foucault <ghost repeater>2006
75.mclusky < mclusky do dallas >2002
76.suicide 1977
77.suicide 1980
78.the prids < chronosynclastic >2010
79.moebius and plank <rastakraut pasta >1980
80.fleetwood mac < mirage >1982
81.howlin' wolf < this howling wolf's new ablum , he doesn's like it . he didn'g lke his electric guitar at first either >1969
82.edgar 'jones' jones < soothing music for stray cats >2005
83.smif -n-wessun <dah shinin ' >1995
84.PETE ROCK AND CL SMOOTH < MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER >1992
85.DIAMOND D <STUNTS BLUNTS AND HIP HOP>1992
86.MOBB DEEP <THE INFAMOUS >1995
87.BRAND NUBIAN < ONE FOR ALL >1990
88.SHIT AND SHINE< JEALOUS OF SHIT AND SHINE >2006
89.90 DAY MEN < CRITICAL BAND >2000
90.SANDY DENNY AND THE STRAWBS < ALL OUR OWN WORK>1973
91.FANNY <MOTHER 'S PRIDE >1973
92.THE GO-BETWEENS <16 LOVERS LANE >1988
93.THE WALKMEN <YOU AND ME >2008
94.JUNIOR BOYS < SO THIS IS GOODBYE >2006
95.FIGHT CLUB < CAT FARM FABOO >1984
96.BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB < HOWL >2005
97.SUN RA < THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN DA >1965
98.JACKIE MCLEAN AND MACHAEL CARVIN < ANTIQUITY >1974
99.morrissey < bona drag >1990
100. the buff medways < steady the buff >2002

― BIG HOOTY aka the Sapperticker (electricsound),

Oh for god's sake. Anyone seriously arguing that this list is too obvious or not obscure enough is an idiot.

The Clor record at #1 is, Love & Pain aside, pretty awful though.

I might actually go and buy the NME this week to reward them for putting West Coast in there though.

you'd have to be a beast not to like The Shaggs but I rilly don't think we need any more shmindie bands being influenced by them.

Anyway fuck polling this but I think the Black Rebel Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club made me laugh longest and hardest.